FAQ

General Questions

Why can’t I send email?

Go here for some help figuring out why you are not able to send email.

Why can’t I receive email?

Go here for some help figuring out why you are not receiving email.

How can I disable anti-spam on my account?

Our anti-spam system cannot be disabled by customers. Please contact Gandi support for help with this issue. Please be sure to include the specific email addresses you wish to update.

Does Gandimail support DKIM?

No, Gandimail does not support DKIM.

If you use Gandi’s DNS however, you are free to add the TXT zone file record needed to add the necessary “_domainkey” TXT entry for your domain. You would then need to see with your outgoing email provider concerning the configuration of their mail server for the service.

Can use a forwarding address as a „from:“ or „reply-to“ address in my email client?

Technically, yes, but you may encounter problems with some email not being received when sending “from” a forwarding address. Since it is not technically possible for email to originate from a forwarding address, such messages are considered by some mail servers to be “spoofed” and therefore block them.

You may therefore find it easier to replace or supplement the forwarding addresses with an actual mailbox (with aliases, if necessary), then configure your email client to be able to send and receive from that address.

Do I have to buy hosting to use Gandi Mail?

You can use Gandi Mail with your domain regardless of what type of hosting you have. You can even use it without having any hosting at all, though you may want to upgrade one or more mailboxes to Premium ones, depending of your usage.

Do I have to use Gandi’s DNS to use Gandi Mail?

No. You just need to be sure you have our MX records in place.

@ 10800 IN MX 50 fb.mail.gandi.net.
@ 10800 IN MX 10 spool.mail.gandi.net.

How can I change mail servers ?

If you are using Gandi’s LiveDNS, you need to update the “MX” record entries that are in your domains DNS records, by replacing them with the ones that your new email provider gives you.

How can I save my email?

If you need to save an individual email as a file, most mail clients will allow you to do this by selecting „Save Email“ in the menu for that individual email. The email will then be downloaded to your computer in the location you specified. You can find specific directions for downloading an individual email at either of our webmail clients below.

If you wish to save all of your email onto your computer, you can do so by using a local (computer based) email client such as Thunderbird or Outlook and specifying in your settings to save your email to the local storage.

You can also set up your email to use POP (post office protocol). This type of mail protocol will download your email automatically to the local storage and then delete it from the mail server.

Warnung

Using POP will delete the emails from the mail server, and you will no longer be able to retrieve those emails in the future.

Warnung

Using POP and IMAP at the same time can cause problems with your email, and potentially lead to the loss of emails. Please be careful when setting up this protocol.

You can also find third party software which will help you to download all of your email from the mail server to your computer. There are different tools for different operating systems and different situations, so we recommend searching for „IMAP backup“ and finding a program that fits your needs.

Can I use Gandi Mail with an external domain?

No. GandiMail can not be used with a domain not registered with Gandi.

Using GandiMail from several locations (pc/phone/tablet)

I’m always on the go and read emails on various computers, phones etc. but something is not working!

People are frequently on the go, reading emails on their smartphones, on their tablet computers, back at the office, and when they come home. Problems can occur (missing emails at one location, problems in sorting mails, etc.), however if you have not designed the “system” to work this way…

In a word, the solution is: IMAP

IMAP is an email protocol that leaves messages on the server, and is designed so that you can access your email from multiple locations. (The ‚opposite‘ of this is POP, which should only be used when you read emails on one computer).

Concretely, you will want to be sure that everything that you use to read your emails (ex. iPhone, iPad, home/work PC) are all set up to access your emails using IMAP. If even one of your computers in your personal ‚network‘ use POP, this will cause problems in consulting your emails in the other locations. All the more so if you have your email client (Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, etc.) set up to download messages from the server!

How do I write a ruby action script to work with Gandimail?

(Contributed by Guillaume F.)

This is an example ruby action script with the proper settings for use with Gandimail:

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
       :address => "mail.gandi.net",
       :port => 587,
       :authentication => :login,
       :user_name => 'USERNAME',
       :domain=>'DOMAIN.LTD',
       :password => 'PASSWORD',
       :enable_starttls_auto=>true
}

Where can I find a mail’s full headers?

When troubleshooting problems with email with our support team, you may be asked to look at an email’s full headers. The full header is generally not visible to the user, but the program you use to view your mail should have an option to see the full header. Unfortunately, this process is different for each mail client. The following list links you to the support pages of some of the most common mail clients where they explain how to see the full mail header.

Webmail

What is the URL format to use to configure Thunderbird/Lightning?

The form is like this (replace the generic info in the example with those of your specific account):

https://sogo3.gandi.net/SOGo/dav/user@domain.tld/Calendar/personal/

Note too that a connector exists for Thunderbird at https://sogo.nu/download.html#/frontends

Error Messages

You can see an explanation of some common error messages on the following pages:

Spoofing

You may have received a spam email that looks as though it was sent from an address on your own domain name.

There is no need to worry, as this was done by a technique called „Spoofing“, where the sender simply makes the email look like it was sent from your domain name.

Bemerkung

If you see such an email, it does not mean that your email account has been hacked, or that the email was actually sent from your account.

There is no purely technical solution to counter this behaviour, as it is similar to getting someone to stop writing your return address on the back of a paper envelope.

Here are some tips in minimizing spam/junk mail to your account or having your email account spoofed (When spammers send mail in such a way that the e-mail appears to have been sent from your email address):

  • Don’t publish your email address on your web pages but rather use web forms to receive email. If you wish to publish your email address, place it in an image. This way web crawlers cannot spider through your web pages and extract coding to get your email address

  • Don’t submit your email address to public forums, mailing lists, newsletters, etc. Similarly don’t give out your business card that contain your email address to contests or draws as often the info gets submitted to marketing campaigns where any number of individuals may have access to your e-mail address information.